July 11, 2013
— Maetenloch
Well since it's Sharknado night and I've been reliably informed that no one reads the links anyway, I'm gonna give you what you crave - nothing.
This impulse toward the state as über-parent is based on a profound fallacy and a profound truth. The fallacy is that anyone can care about someone else's children as much as his own. The former Texas Republican senator Phil Gramm liked to illustrate the hollowness of professions to the contrary with a story. He told a woman, "My educational policies are based on the fact that I care more about my children than you do." She said, "No, you don't." Gramm replied, "Okay: What are their names?"
Simply put, the purpose of child support is to replace marriage. Discussing how it should be implemented is discussing how to replace marriage. Some might argue that this is a good thing, either as a rare exception (say for a husband who abandons his family) or as a rule (as practiced in the western world). But this doesn't change the fact that child support is working exactly as designed, and exactly as should be expected. Child support crowds out marriage, and even in cases where weddings still technically occur the option for the wife to unilaterally convert the family from a marriage based family to a child support based family always exists. This is part of the threatpoint designed to empower wives and dis-empower husbands. Men simply don't have the option to choose the marriage based model over the child support model.
Okay I lied but one of these days....
How to Get the IRS To Ignore Your Fraud
Act like an illegal, get a fake tax ID and scam away. Because the shadows and stuff.
"We were being told by upper management to ignore fraud, to assign ITIN numbers and . pay out refunds to people who are lying," Howard explained. "It's a license to steal when you allow that."Howard and five other tax examiners at the ITIN processing center in Austin all told WTHR the same thing: for years, IRS managers have instructed them to "look the other way" while processing ITIN applications that appear to be filed fraudulently - even when those applications contain clear signs of criminal activity.
For example, Howard received a stack of ITIN applications for dozens of children attending the same school in South Carolina. (Adult tax filers can request an ITIN for a child if they want to claim that child as a dependent in order to get child tax credits and a larger tax refund.) When he researched that school, he discovered it didn't even exist. When Howard reported the apparent scam to his bosses, he claims his managers ordered him to approve the applications anyway.
Childbirth in Canada vs. the US
In Canada it's free but you get what you pay for.
"You get what you pay for," says Bryant. "There's this shame we're supposed to feel for being . rich, but that's not fair, is it? I wasn't born rich. I worked really hard. You should be able to buy what you want with your money."
To her, the American attitude toward medical care comes as a dose of welcome reality. "The message in the Canadian system is that we're all alike, and there's something nice about that when you're not sick," she says, "but if you actually have medical problems, and you're in a system that's designed to treat the most people and save money, and not to do absolutely everything that's possible, then that's when it becomes an issue. If I were dying of cancer, I'd rather live here."
After peak beef back in 1977 chicken has slowly become the new king meat.
How Long Copyright Terms Make Art Disappear
Which is why Amazon offers 13 times as many new books from 1910 as from 1950.
Do Not Go Gently Into That Pig Roast
Pulling off a decent pig roast is a non-trivial exercise. In college I helped out with a few in-ground pig roasts and you definitely want a team of guys working with you. But it was worth it.
The whole saga taught me several important lessons, first among them: The modern oven is an amazingly powerful and hugely convenient innovation, and should be cast aside only with abundant caution. It might sound fun to erect a big metal box in your backyard for the purposes of cooking a very large assemblage of meat, but you're basically reinventing the wheel, and badly. And don't think the alternative approach of burying the pig with coals will do you any better; though that ancient practice has the virtue of simplicity and smoky tastes, digging deep into the Earth will be harder than you imagine. One Wired colleague regaled me with a pig roast tale that ended with him acquiring a backhoe.Another major lesson is to set and observe strict limits on animal size when undertaking a massive roast (over, say, 10 pounds). Each additional pound adds to the amount of time you'll need to wait if you underestimate cooking time, complicates the mounting of the animal in your oven, and risks pushing you, heaven forbid, into the exponentially more complex world of having to cook outside your oven.
Finally, remember that no enormous cooking project will be as simple as you imagine. You see a whole pig, and you imagine the roasting, and the eating, and the joy and camaraderie that goes along with it. But don't forget the transportation, the setup, the fuel management, stray sparks and coal and ash, grease, estimating cooking progress and correcting your schedule, and of course the cleanup.
The Float Fucker Strikes Again
Actually I'd say that average Barbie is the hawter one.
Yahoo group. That is all.
And my Twitter spew.
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Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 06:45 PM (7vimm)
Is this a great country, or what?
Posted by: Juan in the Shadows at July 11, 2013 06:45 PM (uLzrM)
Posted by: To Serve Man at July 11, 2013 06:45 PM (Vk2pI)
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How so?
Never mind. I knew where the quote came from, and the url he linked to wasn't it. I didn't actually click through until a minute ago and saw that they quote Dalrock in that article.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 06:46 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 06:46 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 11, 2013 06:46 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Bill H at July 11, 2013 06:46 PM (3sZO1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 11, 2013 06:47 PM (aDwsi)
No.
Posted by: L, elle at July 11, 2013 10:44 PM
Not even so bad it's good bad? Just sucky?
Posted by: otho at July 11, 2013 06:48 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Bill H at July 11, 2013 06:48 PM (3sZO1)
Posted by: The Political Hat is your friend, he fights for freedom! at July 11, 2013 06:49 PM (Vk2pI)
life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication,
This is why you get trash like Sharknado. No one can do a movie, or a book if it resembles something already done by someone else. .
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at July 11, 2013 06:49 PM (J9B2T)
What's so sad about it is that many conservatives don't understand that and are big on child support enforcement while claiming to be pro-marriage and pro-traditional family.
Posted by: GhostShip at July 11, 2013 06:49 PM (sbaXF)
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Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2013 06:51 PM (zPVBH)
Hot dang. I thought I was the only person who ever used that phrase ...
So even amidst racial insanity and country tearing itself apart to please the leftist overlords, I won't feel as alone in the camps as I might have otherwise ...
Posted by: Adriane... at July 11, 2013 06:52 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2013 06:52 PM (NEIxp)
Posted by: jakeman at July 11, 2013 06:52 PM (96M6e)
Hold my beer......
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at July 11, 2013 06:54 PM (jucos)
Men simply don't have the option to choose the marriage based model over the child support model.
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Not necessarily true. I know more than one woman that has been fucked over in that dept. By a woman judge, no less. YMMV
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 06:54 PM (SkhKv)
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Posted by: dogfish at July 11, 2013 06:57 PM (nsOJa)
Long story short? In SC you can Drink, Drive, and Shoot.
But just a little.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 06:58 PM (4Mv1T)
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Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 07:00 PM (SkhKv)
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Posted by: Jenny Hates All The Things at July 11, 2013 07:00 PM (GmTxn)
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Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 07:03 PM (3VBXw)
"Modern Marvels: The Potato"
I have that on too. Just need more recipes. I only have about 20 to work from.
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 07:04 PM (SkhKv)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:04 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: Splunge at July 11, 2013 07:04 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill from Canada at July 11, 2013 07:05 PM (UsT6v)
I remember one time I took a friend to pick up his children because his car was broke down (after the divorce an old clunker was all he could afford) and his ex was gloating on how she spent the money on her new boyfriend.
Child support is nothing more than a subsidy for single motherhood. It should come as no supprise to consevatives that what one subsidizes one gets more of.
Posted by: GhostShip at July 11, 2013 07:06 PM (sbaXF)
The increase in obesity can be directly tied to the emergence of the "food pyramid" which encouraged everyone to eat a very carb-heavy diet. People actually followed that advice...and then gained and gained.
Of course, the food companies helped nudge everyone in that direction by making "low fat" food that replaced fat with corn syrup.
Posted by: Lauren at July 11, 2013 07:06 PM (ikxXh)
I wouldn't use a period where there was both a depression and world war as a baseline for human diet.
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at July 11, 2013 07:06 PM (2vl2+)
Posted by: Bill H at July 11, 2013 07:06 PM (3sZO1)
Posted by: L, elle at July 11, 2013 10:51 PM
Gonna hazard a guess here... the characters/actors and script sucked? The people were either infuriatingly annoying or vapid, or the script was just shitty by-the-numbers shit? Not even hilarious dumb dialogue... just shit? The story doesn't have to be much, the action doesn't have to make much sense ... it's a chomp fest... but, as long as you've cast well and written decent characters and some sharp banter, it's a win.
Posted by: otho at July 11, 2013 07:07 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:07 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 07:07 PM (SkhKv)
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I've been trying to dump it for over a year, but I've got one straight arrow teen at home who watches ESPN night and day when he's not at the gym or getting A's. If someone can tell me how to get SportsCenter and NBATV somewhere else, I'll donate $100 to your next adult beverage purchase.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:07 PM (4Mv1T)
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Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill from Canada at July 11, 2013 07:09 PM (UsT6v)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2013 07:09 PM (NEIxp)
Posted by: cthulhu
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Was this discovery made before, or after?
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:10 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:10 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: ziptie at July 11, 2013 07:10 PM (JOgKo)
Since the majority of divorces are initiated by the woman, how much do you think the knowledge that she can exact the SAME MONEY out of her partner whether married or not influences her decision to try to resolve any problems or to just go ahead and get a divorce?
Discussions with older long married couples reveals that during their early years there were times that both had opportunities and problems that would today lead to a divorce but due to the financial problems inherent in divorce AND THE STIGMA ATTACHED by society, they worked their problems out. Together.
So maybe child support doesn't CAUSE divorce but it does help.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at July 11, 2013 07:11 PM (28TG+)
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Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 07:13 PM (3VBXw)
http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
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Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 11:07 PM (SkhKv)
****
did you get the pics I sent?
Posted by: rich@gmu at July 11, 2013 07:15 PM (ga+7c)
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill from Canada at July 11, 2013 07:15 PM (UsT6v)
Levin played this clip on his radio show today. Levin asked if the Reid household has happy hour early in the day. LOL.
Posted by: Cheri at July 11, 2013 07:15 PM (EAgmr)
I have been pissing people off front left and center here the last 24 hours, though, so I am staying quiet tonight!
Sometimes that is just our job, you know, keep everybody in line. lol.
Yea, we are getting some much needed rain.
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 07:16 PM (SkhKv)
Posted by: NCKate at July 11, 2013 07:16 PM (FSbfx)
your home, be very, very certain about the location of your septic
tank's leach field....>>
I have a mound so it wouldn't be the best spot anyways. But how big was the trailer roaster you used for that to be a problem?
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 07:17 PM (qo244)
Right. I don't know how long it's going to take people to figure it out, but it's the damned highly digestible carbs, sugar included. Those fat kids you're seeing we're raised on sippy cups full of apple juice (middle class) or cans of soda (lower class). And meat these days has less fat than ever, because the stupid McGovern commission told us fat was bad, and the media bought in 100%.
Posted by: Splunge at July 11, 2013 10:55 PM (bKA83)
That can't be right! These are the same wise folks that informed us that salt was bad for you.....
.....oh, wait.....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 07:17 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Teeth at July 11, 2013 07:17 PM (GmTxn)
Brandy is to wine, is from grapes.
Whiskey in the US usually comes from corn, but don't know what corn drinks we might be referring to.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:18 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill from Canada at July 11, 2013 07:18 PM (UsT6v)
Posted by: Bill H at July 11, 2013 07:18 PM (3sZO1)
Posted by: McGregor
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Operative term here is "pit".
As spoken from someone who's dug one to roast said pig.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:19 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 07:19 PM (K+I6z)
1. On Divorce. The No-Fault divorce was invented as a feminist instrument of empowerment. I say fine, let's keep no-fault divorce as an option, since no one should really be forced to stay in a marriage involuntarily, even when there is no major deal-breaking problem like adultery or imprisonment. If a woman (or man, although most divorces are filed by women) wants to get divorced without having to show some fault that justifies divorce (adultery, abuse, frigidity, incarceration, etc.), but simply because one spouse is unhappy, and the divorce is contested (i.e., not by agreement), then the rule needs to be that the divorce-initiating spouse takes nothing (other than maybe some nominal, fixed sum of starting-over money).
There's a convenient term we can use to accurately describe a no-fault, unilateral, unwanted elective divorce -- abandonment of the marriage. Walk away if you want, but whoever abandons an otherwise functional marriage doesn't get to walk away with the benefits of the marriage.
2. On Alimony. On a slightly less serious note, one solution to the problem of women who file for divorce but expect to continue to be supported financially, that shit needs to be shut down immediately. Men provide for women in order to get sex, and sammiches, and sex, and an occasional blowjob. Women are nice to men because men do good and useful things like keep away inferior men and clean gutters and make money sometimes. It's called provisioning.
So, if a woman wants to live elsewhere, and set up another household away from the man whom she now despises (but wants to keep receiving her side of the marital bargain -- the money), then she should be allowed to do so, as long as she continues to keep up her end of the marital bargain and act like a wife (who just happens to live in another household). She should be required to perform the wifely duties commensurate with the husbandly provisioning she receives.
Or, as we might call it, transition from "wife" to "girlfriend."
Problem solved.
Posted by: Phinn at July 11, 2013 07:20 PM (oFH2D)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2013 07:20 PM (NEIxp)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Teeth at July 11, 2013 07:20 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Adriane... at July 11, 2013 11:02 PM (Jv4FA)
Thanks, Adriane! Is it my imagination, or are there more HD coupons floating around than before?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 07:20 PM (T1005)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:21 PM (Z9EHQ)
The GOP does this with many issues. Take immigration, for instance. They love legal immigrants and hate illegals immigrants as though millions of low-skilled, poorly educated workers would somehow be better for our nation if only they had come here legally.
Posted by: Little Lebowski Urban Achiever at July 11, 2013 07:21 PM (8LCi0)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:22 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Bill H at July 11, 2013 07:22 PM (3sZO1)
/Alex Trebek voice
Noooo, sorry, we were looking for beer.
Wine is fermented vegetable material (usually grape juice), Brandy is the result of distilled wine. Beer is made from fermenting grains. Whiskey is is distilled from fermented grains. Not a perfect analogy, I admit.
But...now you know.
Also, so-called fortified wines, sherry, port, muscatel, etc., are extra-fermented wines to boost their alcohol content.
Now you know...more.
Posted by: soothsayer at July 11, 2013 07:22 PM (KwX0v)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:22 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 11, 2013 07:23 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Adriane... at July 11, 2013 07:23 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:24 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 07:24 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill from Canada at July 11, 2013 07:24 PM (UsT6v)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:24 PM (Z9EHQ)
That's not a pig roast it's a Luau.
Posted by: McGregor
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Yer talkin' to someone who's been here for 10 generations in one state, hoss.
It's a pig roast.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:24 PM (4Mv1T)
Whiskey in the US usually comes from corn, but don't know what corn drinks we might be referring to.
So close. You were right there.
Posted by: soothsayer at July 11, 2013 07:25 PM (Fely/)
Posted by: Occasional Reader at July 11, 2013 07:25 PM (Q+/8m)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:25 PM (2/T/u)
I'm trying to figure out where Val-U-Rite is on that chart. It must be somewhere.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2013 07:25 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:26 PM (Z9EHQ)
"2-Headed Shark Attack" is better than "Sharknado"
Hello all.
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 07:26 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 07:27 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Teeth at July 11, 2013 07:27 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 07:28 PM (SkhKv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Hammer! You always kick it up a notch, and with class.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:28 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:28 PM (2/T/u)
I'm trying to figure out where Val-U-Rite is on that chart. It must be somewhere.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2013 11:25 PM (gqT4g)
--Wine is from the fruit group.
Beer is from the bread group.
Irish cream and Amarula are from the dairy group.
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 07:28 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:28 PM (7vimm)
I did. She and Reid need to be jettisoned out into space or into a sharknado. I'd be happy either way. Those "Bible People". You mean Christians you scrunt??
Posted by: Cheri at July 11, 2013 07:29 PM (EAgmr)
This might come in handy after the apocalypse.
We'll need to know how to make our own hooch, ammo, weapons, etc.
Posted by: soothsayer at July 11, 2013 07:29 PM (KeJAW)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense...... at July 11, 2013 07:29 PM (9bMee)
to all you young guys out there - do. not. get. married.
one way or another you will NEVER stop paying for it.
Posted by: Shoey at July 11, 2013 07:29 PM (m6OUa)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:29 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 07:29 PM (SkhKv)
****
We (Americans) used to tease fat people all of the time. TV shows, movies and even commercials picked on fat people. Then the 80's happened and we got all sensitive n shit. The next thing you know being fat is normal or even special. Once it became normal, you started seeing more and more fat people.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 11, 2013 07:29 PM (SkyIE)
Posted by: Alice Cooper Band at July 11, 2013 07:30 PM (Vk2pI)
Alcoholics,
Brandy is to wine as whiskey is to ____ ?
Posted by: soothsayer at July 11, 2013 11:09 PM (NLH1M)
Spoiled, warm beer that you forgot to put the hops in.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 07:30 PM (T1005)
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And she was extolling her virtue as Catholic not so long ago.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:30 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:30 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:31 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill from Canada at July 11, 2013 07:31 PM (UsT6v)
Because. Hollywood.
"A Sharky Sharknado Picture Show". One or two rock anthems, and then you've got the album tie in.
What? Oh, it's over?
Crap. (I mean, thank Gawd!)
Posted by: dissent555 at July 11, 2013 07:31 PM (yR6A1)
your home, be very, very certain about the location of your septic
tank's leach field....
Posted by: cthulhu
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Was this discovery made before, or after?
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 11:10 PM (4Mv1T)
I've just heard....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 07:31 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Ragamuffin at July 11, 2013 07:31 PM (fzFF6)
It's a pig roast.>>
I apologize for missing the word pit twice in my responses. I guess I know too many welders and assumed everyone used what I use. That and most of this year where I live you would hit water at a foot below the surface.
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 07:31 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:31 PM (2/T/u)
Is anyone else waiting for the Rachel Jeantel version of Barbie?
You can detach her neck and use it as a tire on Ken's lawn tractor.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2013 07:32 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: The Cursive Hat at July 11, 2013 07:32 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:32 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 11, 2013 07:33 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:33 PM (2/T/u)
We (Americans) used to tease fat people all of the time. TV shows, movies and even commercials picked on fat people. Then the 80's happened and we got all sensitive n shit. The next thing you know being fat is normal or even special. Once it became normal, you started seeing more and more fat people.
Which is weird to me, cause wasn't everyone doing coke and stuff?
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 07:33 PM (SkhKv)
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 07:34 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Cheri at July 11, 2013 07:34 PM (EAgmr)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:34 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 11:31 PM (2/T/u)
--Not as good as Acid Whey, though.
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 07:35 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Big Ben at July 11, 2013 07:35 PM (I5Htn)
The problem is not so much fat, as it is lack of muscle. We have a lot of people who are simply weak.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 07:35 PM (lr3d7)
My husband and my mama and half the Horde are not members of that club these days.Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:35 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Little Lebowski Urban Achiever at July 11, 2013 07:35 PM (8LCi0)
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 07:36 PM (3VBXw)
Some night we'll have to discuss Anglo Saxons and their mead halls.
But we'll discuss it in Old English, of course!
O/E: meduheall
Posted by: soothsayer at July 11, 2013 07:36 PM (+oin+)
That's because a lot of men don't work anymore. They don't do any kind of manual labor, and they don't do any physical work at home. Today's society is soft both mentally and physically.
Posted by: Little Lebowski Urban Achiever at July 11, 2013 07:36 PM (8LCi0)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, totally not nuking the Colonies this week at July 11, 2013 07:36 PM (m9V0o)
That makes one of you! My husband and my mama and half the Horde are not members of that club these days.
To hell with them.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 07:37 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:37 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: McGregor
-------------------------
Truth is, NO ONE here digs a pit anymore that I know of. We do it like you do. I dug one pit ONCE with a friend when we were 23. Half a pig. 150lbs. Grate over coals. PITA.
Up all night. Pigs head, less jowls, tied in the tree to keep an eye on things (pig farmer wanted the jowls).
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:37 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 07:37 PM (8FeS+)
If you're watching this pseudo-porno shark movie, head back to liveblog. Still open for business.
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 07:37 PM (XQzGn)
Shouldn't the judge by from the same species.
What is that thing, a walrus?
Posted by: Zimmerman at July 11, 2013 07:37 PM (I5Htn)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:38 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Teeth at July 11, 2013 07:38 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 07:38 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula_51 at July 11, 2013 07:38 PM (Vgn84)
2headshark flick is turning out to be a winner. why oh why couldn't Nado have had the same director?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 11, 2013 07:38 PM (/tUlE)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:38 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:38 PM (7vimm)
Jesse Helms and Jesse Jackson, 2016!!!!!
Alienate Everybody!
Posted by: I Miss Bloom County ... at July 11, 2013 07:39 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 11, 2013 07:39 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 07:39 PM (X9Mnx)
But we'll discuss it in Old English, of course!
Check your crossbow at the door.
Posted by: Llewellyn apGriffin at July 11, 2013 07:40 PM (4IFRz)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 07:40 PM (8FeS+)
Mr. Met will be happy to demonstrate the proper application of a Louisville ClueBat to Reid's skull to open the All-Star game in Citi Field. Meanwhile, some creative moron/ette should figure out how to pipe the following musical number into Dingy Harry's office: http://tinyurl.com/dbh58f
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 11, 2013 07:40 PM (ldC11)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula_51 at July 11, 2013 07:40 PM (Vgn84)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:40 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:41 PM (2/T/u)
I always say the only drink I like is Bloody Marys and the occasional glass of Asti, but damn I love Kirs....specifically Kir Royales made with Asti and real berries.
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 11:38 PM (2/T/u)
--I like a Kir because as long as you got the right liqueur, it does not matter how cheap the wine is; it'll get the job done.
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 07:41 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:41 PM (7vimm)
214,
Yup. In the past even the wealthiest person was forced to ride a horse, walk, and generally keep up with activities that would at least keep them somewhat in good physical capabilities. It should also be noted that for much of human history curves have been appealing, since they were considered a sign of health.
The truth is that the human body is geared towards being slightly "overweight", and there have been some studies recently showing that it doesn't have significant health effects. The thing is, most of human history consisted of alternating periods of starvation and plenty, combined with disease and intestinal parasites which left most people skinny.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 07:41 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Little Lebowski Urban Achiever at July 11, 2013 07:41 PM (8LCi0)
That makes one of you! My husband and my mama and half the Horde are not members of that club these days.
Not true!
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 07:42 PM (SkhKv)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:42 PM (2/T/u)
Hi! Did I tell you about my next great idea for the school lunch program? You'll never guess. Cheap protein, and kids love it, or at least they'd better pretend they do if they know what's good for them.
Posted by: Michelle Obama at July 11, 2013 07:42 PM (bKA83)
Now is the time to run out and see The Lone Ranger.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 11, 2013 07:42 PM (4IFRz)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:42 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Teeth at July 11, 2013 11:38 PM (GmTxn)
--I had never heard of acid whey until I saw a FB post about Greek yogurt. 
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 07:42 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:43 PM (7vimm)
What a whiny, screechy, stupid little man. If I was a juror that was anywhere near the fence in this trial that performance would have had me as a definite not guilty vote. The stuttering defense lawyer in My Cousin Vinny did a better job.
Posted by: Cheri at July 11, 2013 07:43 PM (EAgmr)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 07:43 PM (K+I6z)
And I'm being kind.
I'm already sorry I missed it. You don't need to rub it in.
Posted by: Splunge at July 11, 2013 07:43 PM (bKA83)
Ah, filbert and Alex, don't mind me. But thank you!
So I should stop working on this story about the redheaded mistress of the manor and the mysterious new farmhand?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 07:44 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 11:29 PM (SkhKv)
Hey, that's my job. I've already been assigned as the Official Spirits and Fermentaiton Director in the AOSHQ Stalag after we're all sent to the detention center by the NSA et al.But I will need an enthusiastic assistant ... Spirits and Fermentation Dept. is a big job in the camps. Send over a sample of your wares, and we'll see if you've got what it takes.
Posted by: Phinn at July 11, 2013 07:44 PM (oFH2D)
-Reciprocity
-Sublimation
-Hairball (Slow Track. 4th track by Metallica was always slow)
-Poor Customer Service, (In Your Mouth)
-WingFest
-'Splosion
...and then I'm stuck.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (Z9EHQ)
They just trimmed the gum down a bit, said it would regrow. Didn't hurt, the shots took care of that. Never felt anything. Just awkward trying to breathe with all those bits in your mouth.
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill from Canada at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (UsT6v)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 11:28 PM (SkhKv)
****
ha. save one for me. can start drinking tomorrow morning. The scaffolding was for preservation work. The Sphinx is crumbling into the desert.
Posted by: rich@gmu at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (ga+7c)
And the 4-5 minutes of the firemen "tending to" robber-idiot who walked into a baseball bat was well worth the time.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (yoh1c)
The up all night thing is why I now stick to ribs and other smoked meat for a get together. Nobody bitches at the guy feeding the fire/smoke if their having a beer before noon (well it generally starts at 6am and beer once things are steady).
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (qo244)
Posted by: TFG at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:45 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:46 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:46 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Psychedelicat at July 11, 2013 07:46 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 07:46 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 07:47 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:47 PM (2/T/u)
I don't actually know anyone like that now. Everyone's either disgusted by others or ashamed of themselves.
The problem is that we assume 2% body fat = healthy. It's not for a man, and definitely not for a woman.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 07:47 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: St. Kermit of Gosnell at July 11, 2013 07:47 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:48 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula_51 at July 11, 2013 07:48 PM (Vgn84)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 11, 2013 07:48 PM (V1ZIU)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 07:48 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:49 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 07:49 PM (NRQlH)
Phinn-
But I will need an enthusiastic assistant ... Spirits and Fermentation Dept. is a big job in the camps. Send over a sample of your wares, and we'll see if you've got what it takes.
I need to learn. More than happy to be an apprentice and taster.
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 07:49 PM (SkhKv)
Posted by: St. Kermit of Gosnell at July 11, 2013 07:49 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 07:49 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Little Lebowski Urban Achiever at July 11, 2013 07:50 PM (8LCi0)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:50 PM (Z9EHQ)
Speaking of which, if I were to stock a bar for Thor, who so does not deserve it, what are some unusual liquors to get?
And Alex, one of the doctors I used to work for told me that women who are 10-20 lbs over weight go on forever!
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 11:45 PM (2/T/u)
--Yes, creme de cassis (from currant berries). Thanks to my French stepmother for introducing me!
Ever had Amarula on the rocks? Other than that, the only unusual liquor I have encountered (by my definition) has been the moonshine in Laos with the snake in it.
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 07:51 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:51 PM (2/T/u)
There's a ginger liqueur called Canton something, that makes a great mixer. Rye dog, unaged Rye (it's clear) is different and interesting (you'd have to mailorder if you wanted my favorite, which is from upstate NY). There's a kaffir lime vodka around (that's the stuff that gives many Thai dishes their flavor); the same outfit makes a Chipotle vodka.
Posted by: Splunge at July 11, 2013 07:51 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 11, 2013 07:51 PM (V1ZIU)
Posted by: filbert
It was not a mistake. It was serendipity. I laughed so hard at some of those comments, that I got light-headed. That hasn't happened in a long time.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 07:51 PM (lq3Ak)
Divorce?
widow?
??
Posted by: Jake in ID
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PISSED.
Or as we like say at the downtown Baptist church; Righteous Indignation.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:51 PM (4Mv1T)
Or serialize it on the ONT? That'd probably be a first . . .
No way. I'd like to run for public office one day and if these ever got out...
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 07:52 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill from Canada at July 11, 2013 07:52 PM (UsT6v)
Posted by: soothsayer at July 11, 2013 11:27 PM (+oin+)
There are three mains sources of booze: fruits, grains, and honey.
Ciders are made from fruit (Wine is just grape cider)
Beer, Sake, &c. are made from various grains.
Mead is made from honey.
As for beer, there are three main types: Ales (bottoms fermented), Lagers (top fermented), and Lambics (spontanious fermentation).
Posted by: Alice Cooper Band at July 11, 2013 11:30 PM (Vk2pI)
Er....trifle incomplete there, hoss. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila.
Bottom line -- anything sweet (or starchy, with enzymes) can be fermented, and probably has been.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 07:52 PM (T1005)
Isolate the last 10 minutes of Sharknado and its the best movie evah. Otherwise skip it and I love these crap movies, but it was just terrible.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 11, 2013 07:53 PM (/tUlE)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:53 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:54 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: logprof
I was in Spain at a bar and the first drink they made me was some kind of blue liquor that they set on fire. Fool that I was I drank it. The next thing I knew was what the bar's ceiling looked like from the floor.
Not wise.
Posted by: Cheri at July 11, 2013 07:54 PM (EAgmr)
Usually it is an all night affair. The most dangerous time is around 4-6 in the morning, when folks have been known to pass out and let the pig get cold or catch on fire.
I've done both. Keeping the coals under the pig at the right temp, about 300 is an art. Get them to close and your pig catches on fire. Too far away, the pig doesn't cook.
Usually we put a section of chain link fence on cinder blocks and put the pig on the fence, gut down. You burn the wood for coals in another fire, then shovel coals under pig. After 4-6 hours you turn the pig over ribs now up. Then you start basting with sauce.
Course if you have a rich friend with a pig cooker it's a lot easier.
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at July 11, 2013 07:54 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: I. M. Weasel at July 11, 2013 07:54 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 11, 2013 07:55 PM (V1ZIU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 11, 2013 07:55 PM (iReEb)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 07:56 PM (2/T/u)
And Women are the ones that carry the babies so a bigger reserve is required if the group is to survive and grow. Men Nedded to catch shit so to big a reserve could be a problem. Oh and hell yes curves are good on women.
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 07:56 PM (qo244)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 07:56 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 11:54 PM (2/T/u)
--Amarula is like Irish cream, but made from the marula fruit from southern Africa. Elephants love the marula. The fruits sometimes ferment while still on the tree, and the elephants have been known to eat them in that state and get a little tipsy, a humorous sight, no doubt.
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 07:57 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 07:57 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:57 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 07:57 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 07:57 PM (6LImX)
I've done both.
--------------------------------------------
Someone "accidentally" poured a fifth of 151 rum in the Q sauce about 3AM last time we cooked a half pig on the pit. Tasted pretty dang good actually.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 07:57 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: no good deed at July 11, 2013 07:58 PM (WmLrU)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 07:58 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Alice Cooper Band at July 11, 2013 11:30 PM (Vk2pI)
Oh, you left a bunch of stuff out!
I don't know what kind of future you envision, dude, but all that fancy crap like "fruits" and "grains" ain't exactly gonna be lying around all over the place fairly soon. We're going to have to get creative in the late-Obama era.
That reminds me -- have you ever tasted some of my home made Lighter Fluid and Old Mountain Dew Chardonnay? It's my own special recipe.
Posted by: Phinn at July 11, 2013 07:59 PM (oFH2D)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 07:59 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 08:00 PM (7vimm)
Or trades people and an old 300 gallon fuel oil tank. (Yes we fired it good before the first meal)
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 08:00 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:01 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: angel with a sword at July 11, 2013 08:01 PM (2y8mE)
Also, Jerry O'Connell's brother is apparently the Harvey Dent of Whole Island
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 08:01 PM (XQzGn)
G'Nite, ONT-Morons. Y'all be the Moron Elite, as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: filbert at July 12, 2013 12:00 AM (7vimm)
--Now that the rum has hit oughta be the *best* time to post, no?
'Night, nutty Moron!
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 08:01 PM (3VBXw)
My sauce includes at LEAST one fifth of bourbon. Tomato paste, tomato juice or catsup, vinegar, water, lemons, black pepper, Texas Pete, salt. Cook for four hours.
It's half East, half West.
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at July 11, 2013 08:02 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 11:24 PM (2/T/u)
====
Yep. That's what we heard, too. 
Posted by: jc at July 11, 2013 08:02 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 11:49 PM (SkhKv)
Cool, but uh ... taste? Yeah, we made need to adjust your ObamaCamp expectations just a bit.
Posted by: Phinn at July 11, 2013 08:02 PM (oFH2D)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 08:03 PM (SkhKv)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 08:03 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:03 PM (2/T/u)
No matter how many times I see it I always chuckle at Granny's "medicine" jug with the three X's.
Posted by: soothsayer at July 11, 2013 08:04 PM (+oin+)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 08:04 PM (6LImX)
The movie's Shark Expert, Dr. Carcarion or whatever, says that sharks' aquadynamic streamlining makes them the perfect flying predators, too.
This guy is totally full of shit. Dr. my ass. I rest my case.
Posted by: Guido - 'PHD Flying Squid Aerodynamics' at July 11, 2013 08:04 PM (/7gW+)
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at July 11, 2013 08:04 PM (wR+pz)
----------------------------------
It's more of a "reaction" than a "sensation".
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 08:04 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:05 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 11, 2013 08:06 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 08:06 PM (XQzGn)
Or you jus' take the piggy to Sonny's Bar-B-Q ...
http://www.sonnysbbq.com/
course, I knew 'em back in the old days. things might be different now ...
Posted by: I Miss Bloom County and Sonny's BBQ... at July 11, 2013 08:06 PM (Jv4FA)
does the Thor reside at the same address
No, and the resolution of that problem is the source of Miss Tammy's current frustrations.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 08:07 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 11, 2013 08:07 PM (SkhKv)
These days, the gooberment MANDATES BY LAW that I have Everclear in my gas tank, in the form of corn ethanol, at a minimum concentration of 10%.
Where it eats gaskets and seals so that they leak, washes oil off of cylinder walls so that the engine wears out prematurely, attracts water that rusts everything not made out of stainless steel, drives up the nitrogen oxides in the exhaust so the car fails its smog test, and turns the rest of the fuel into an indissoluble gel that plugs up and ruins the entire fuel system.
If only there were a political party that stood shoulder to shoulder against such technically insane government mandates. Wouldn't that be something? One can dream. We certainly don't have that today.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2013 08:07 PM (gqT4g)
A biker friend makes what he calls Applejack. That shit is the bomb. Too bad he won't let loose of the recipe. Tastes sooo good. Warms the cockles of your heart.
Search apple jack recipe. Good one pops up in no time.
Posted by: Panhandler at July 11, 2013 08:07 PM (LqVNJ)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:08 PM (2/T/u)
No doubt. The question is the worth of Carmen Electra vs. the worth of Tara Reid. Sadly ("Van Wilder" was a lot later than "Singled Out"), the older girl has maintained more hotness and more of an aura than the younger chick, which is why Carmen can just be slutting it up for a bigger paycheck than Tara Reiid ducking CGI-sharks for less.
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 08:08 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 08:08 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:08 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 08:08 PM (KVNt1)
Posted by: filbert at July 11, 2013 11:57 PM (7vimm)
Um, sure. If you really are interested in awful attempts at dirty stories. 
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 08:08 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 08:09 PM (KVNt1)
****
My wife has a Canadian friend whose husband died from a very routine broken leg. The hospitals and clinics gave him the run around because they don't consider a broken leg to be a life threatening injury. He went to the hospital and they put him in an inflatable cast, gave him some pain killers (for free) and set him up with an appointment for a few days later; they didn't even take x-rays. The original appointment was pushed back for a couple more days but they gave him more pills (for free). When he finally saw a real doctor and had x-rays the doctor realized that bone wasn't set so he set the bone and put him in a real cast. The guy had a fever a few days later and they gave him some cold medication (for free). The fever got worse and he started having dizzy spells so they admitted him to the hospital(for free). It was here that they discovered that he had a severe infection in the broken leg because the bone wasn't set for 5 days. They gave him antibiotics for the infection (for free) and kept him in the hospital (for free). his condition didn't improve so the ran some tests (for free) and they realize that his leg had gangrene. They ended up amputating his leg (for free). His condition improved and he was released from the hospital with (free) crutches. A few months later he got really sick and they ran some more tests (for free) and discovered that the gangrene had spread to his kidneys and lungs. They gave him the most bad ass antibiotics on the planet (for free), but even those could only slow the infection down and eventually he died from a lung infection after his kidneys had failed a few months earlier.
I met this guy at a wedding just after his leg was amputated and his wife told us the story (up to the point of the amputation). She ended the story with "we are fortunate to live in Canada because without free healthcare I don't know what we would do". I had to leave the table before I broke something.
I have another "free" healthcare story if any one wants to here it.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 11, 2013 08:10 PM (SkyIE)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:10 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: torquewrench
Hell, they've mandated fuels that don't exist yet for the sake of "regulation". They've fined companies for not using fuels that don't exist.
...thanks, EPA!
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 08:11 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:12 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 08:12 PM (6LImX)
...thanks, EPA!>>
Just wait til they fine us for not eating healthy foods that don't exist under Obamacare.
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 08:13 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Sharknado at July 11, 2013 08:13 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:13 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Bomber at July 11, 2013 08:14 PM (+Wfbd)
But we've been fighting for about 2 months over a huge problem, and I am going to have to give in and I am having a hard time being gracious about it.
Oh, I know. Hence the frustration. Solving the one problem brings another.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 08:15 PM (lr3d7)
He won't share the recipe because the secret ingredient is meth.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 08:15 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:15 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: McGregor
-You've been denied because you don't eat Snozzberries.
Sincerely,
-The IRS, who is not your doctor.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 08:16 PM (lq3Ak)
Yes and no. No doubt whatsoever I need to get laid. Several times. Up a-gin the wall, no less. Or bent over, or with ankle earrings, I aint picky at this point!
Have I told you about the comment my friend P made recently?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 08:16 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:16 PM (2/T/u)
Dear Dating Sites,
You know how I said women 22-30? I meant it. No children? Meant that as well. So why are you sending me "matches" with 18 year-old single mothers?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 08:17 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:17 PM (2/T/u)
Because he's right or you want to be nice (I was going to say to be a Republican but that sounded mean)
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 08:18 PM (qo244)
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Being gracious isn't a requirement to getting along in life.
Being honest is. And I think you are.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 08:19 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:19 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:19 PM (K+I6z)
Being honest is. And I think you are."
Posted by: Tobacco Road
^THIS^
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 08:20 PM (lq3Ak)
Tammy,
So during a recent conversation:
Me: When are you coming to visit me?
Her: Probably after my son goes back to his father's house. August or September.
Me: Perfect. Come up for the Labor Day Tango Festival in Denver. I'll get us a room at the hotel with a king sized bed.
Her: Mmm, that would be nice. You have to promise to spank me. And I mean hard. I want bruises on my ass when I go home.
Me: ...
Her: I want to show them to [her cousin]. She'll be so jealous.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 11, 2013 08:20 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 11, 2013 08:20 PM (V1ZIU)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 08:20 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 08:21 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 11:45 PM (2/T/u)
Romulan ale?
Posted by: Berserker at July 11, 2013 08:22 PM (FMbng)
It's not even a right or wrong thing. He wants to take a job that will involve upending all our plans and I am not one who likes her cheese moved. Not the big cheese, anyway.
Such is life. I'm just really upset about it.
Like how quiet I'm being??!! Lord.
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:23 PM (2/T/u)
Oldest likes Phineas & Ferb.
Little girl loves Princess Sofia. That one started right before I left so I only saw a couple of episodes.
Posted by: Bomber at July 11, 2013 08:24 PM (+Wfbd)
Dear Dating Sites,
You know how I said women 22-30? I meant it. No children? Meant that as well. So why are you sending me "matches" with 18 year-old single mothers?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 12, 2013 12:17 AM (lr3d7)
Are they contacting you? Then their preferences probably aren't in that range. And unless its eHarmony they probably have no problem contacting you despite your own preferences because YOU meet THEIR preferences.
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 08:24 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: The littl shyning man at July 11, 2013 08:24 PM (JnqoP)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:24 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 11:45 PM (2/T/u)
Romulan ale?
-------------------
Greek Lighter Fluid.
Heaven only knows what it was fermented from. But it worked in a zippo.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 08:24 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 08:25 PM (KVNt1)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 08:26 PM (6LImX)
I've never been much of a fan of Stephen Colbert, but this gets me every time "vis a vis your problem).
youtube/bBEIM0ZPULo?t=18m30s
If the link doesn't work, obviously, go to 18m30s
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 08:27 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:28 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 11:45 PM (2/T/u)
Slivovitz- it's a Serbian booze of made from fermented plums.
It tastes like a cross between cough syrup and a dead man's asshole.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 08:28 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:29 PM (2/T/u)
So you are not being bitchy you're just negotiating?
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 08:29 PM (qo244)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 08:29 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 12, 2013 12:07 AM (SkhKv)
Oh, yeah, we'll have strict quality control procedures in the camps, but it's less about "flavor" per se than it is about walking the fine line between a great batch of Phinn's Chardonnay and methanol blindness.
Posted by: Phinn at July 11, 2013 08:29 PM (oFH2D)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:25 AM (2/T/u)
Pretty good. How you holding up?
Posted by: Berserker at July 11, 2013 08:30 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Turian Bartender at Purgatory Nightclub at July 11, 2013 08:30 PM (KiyII)
Posted by: McGregor
-------------------------
If I may.
Find a pig cooker to duck underneath.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at July 11, 2013 08:30 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 08:30 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: Turian Bartender at Purgatory Nightclub at July 12, 2013 12:30 AM (KiyII)
I have to drink that through an emergency induction port.
Posted by: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy at July 11, 2013 08:32 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 08:32 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 12, 2013 12:10 AM (SkyIE)
sure I'm game,
*****
OK
My ex boss and good friend who is Canadian got another job opportunity and moved back to Canada to work for our competition. He packed up his American born wife and young daughter and moved to Hamilton, Ontario, a big suburb of Toronto. They lived there for a couple of years and his wife one day started to feel a pain in her side. They took her to the nearest hospital and they couldn't see her because the patient to doctor ratio was too high (by this time his wife had full Canadian citizenship so that was not even an issue). They drove across town to another hospital where she was put on a 5 hour waiting list. The pain was unbearable so they went to another hospital hoping for a shorter wait. The third hospital made an appointment for her for the next morning and gave her some pain killers (for free). They knew the pain was serious so they decided to head for Buffalo, NY. When they got to Buffalo she was admitted immediately for an emergency appendectomy. The surgeon said she wouldn't have needed the appointment at the Canadian hospital because she would have been dead. He paid the hospital with his credit card. I think he said it was under $5,000.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 11, 2013 08:32 PM (SkyIE)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:05 AM (2/T/u)
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I'd say better than most, but is has been so long I forgot everything. The other day I was walking along and my virginity found me. It jumped on my leg and stuck like a leech. Horrible looking thing with big ugly teeth and a nasty 'tude. No wonder I tried so hard to lose it the first time.
Posted by: jc at July 11, 2013 08:33 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:33 PM (2/T/u)
Don't get me wrong he likes lots of beers, it's his beverage of choice. But Fosters is his favorite...
You should have said that earlier.
That being the case, divorce his ass immediately on general principle.
/beersnob
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 08:33 PM (X9Mnx)
Take a vacation to the Lakes Near Howell Michigan. Then take him here to pick out what he wants. http://jonnasmarket.com/store.htm
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 08:34 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 11, 2013 08:35 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Cowboy at July 11, 2013 08:35 PM (FMrA0)
Posted by: Infidel is pissed off at July 12, 2013 12:03 AM (SkhKv)
You might be in luck. One of the biker dudes who comes into the shop makes that stuff. Good god that shit is great. He told me how to make it, but I didn't write it down, but he has no problem telling me how he does it. I'll have to get the recipe, because that indeed was the bomb. He brought it in around christmas time. I know it had everclear in it, and something about cinnamon, or cinnamon sticks. I just don't remember, but it would knock you on your ass because it tasted so damn good you drank it like juice.
Posted by: Berserker at July 11, 2013 08:35 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:35 PM (2/T/u)
Dear Dating Sites,
You know how I said women 22-30? I meant it. No children? Meant that as well. So why are you sending me "matches" with 18 year-old single mothers?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 12, 2013 12:17 AM (lr3d7)
--Dude, you think that's bad? I've been married almost 4 years, and Facebook is constantly posting "Meet single women in your area" ads. I'm Fucking married and *not* "looking"!!!1
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 08:37 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:37 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:37 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 08:37 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: Bomber at July 11, 2013 08:37 PM (+Wfbd)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:38 PM (2/T/u)
Tami is Tami, and that is wonderful
But don't sell yourself short
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 08:39 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 08:39 PM (NRQlH)
Do y'all have the option of non-ethanol gas? We do here....maybe because we're by a big lake and people hate it for their boat motors?
I followed a moron link from a few days past for 'pure gas' (I think was the key phrase) and they were all marinas at least in Mid Ohio.
Posted by: spc at July 11, 2013 08:39 PM (WDovF)
Posted by: Berserker at July 12, 2013 12:35 AM (FMbng)
my brother-in-law makes it. He calls it Apple Pie Wine though. I'm not sure if he uses everclear in his recipe though. I do know he uses 151. And that shit does go down way to good. He also will make a "strawberry wine" and a couple others where if you want to get a lady friend really good and liquored up that's the way to go.
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 08:39 PM (LI48c)
Buy any cheap beer in clear bottles and put it out in full sun for a day.
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 08:40 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:41 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Bomber at July 11, 2013 08:41 PM (+Wfbd)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:41 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:38 AM (2/T/u)
Here I come to save the da....umm, WTF did I do?
Posted by: Berserker at July 11, 2013 08:41 PM (FMbng)
Usually, when hitting it from behind, you like to, ahem, spraypaint their back.
Well, her friends would spraypaint you on your back
youtube.com/watch?v=_QIGoQHUIws
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 08:41 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 08:42 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 08:42 PM (8FeS+)
Nothing is safe with you Morons, is it?
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:37 AM (2/T/u)
Where the hell are you looking? Its a fictitious drink in a video game. The first two links I get are for the games wiki entry about it and the second is from the Drunken Moogle which tells you how to make a real world "ryncol"
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 08:42 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:43 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 08:44 PM (8FeS+)
"Body type: Average" does not accurately describe a 5'6" woman who weighs 195 pounds.
And yes, I sometimes get a little bitter when drunk.
And also yes, I once accidentally made an online first date cry in a nice restaurant when she forced me to say whether I'd ask her out again. This after I lied when she asked if I thought her profile was descriptive.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 08:45 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:45 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:46 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: Thunderb at July 11, 2013 08:47 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:48 PM (K+I6z)
Unfortunately it does these days.
Posted by: Bomber at July 11, 2013 08:48 PM (+Wfbd)
Posted by: lou's a girl at July 11, 2013 08:49 PM (vgd4f)
Don't get me wrong he likes lots of beers, it's his beverage of choice. But Fosters is his favorite, and I am pretty sure that La Batts is his next favorite, though he drinks MGD, Sam Adams and Dos Equis Amber a lot, too."
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor
Oh. Dear. Lord.
You're correct, Tammy. Those ARE "skunky". (I drink Budweiser, so I'm not a connoisseur.)
I would recommend "Great Lakes Pale Ale". It is smooth with flavor, like Sam Adams. I don't have a "skunky" palette, so I'm at a loss.
...you might want to go with "Volume and value" over "quality".
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 08:49 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Mags Bennett at July 11, 2013 08:49 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2013 08:49 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:50 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: lou's a girl at July 11, 2013 08:50 PM (vgd4f)
all the little jakes/jake-ettes are under 8,
it is the 4/5 yo's that looking for showes for
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 12, 2013 12:42 AM (6LImX)
--Here's what we're getting out 14 month old hooked on (I hope for at least 2 years):
http://youtu.be/LroTaG5Q8Ng(N.B. Better in the original Castilian Spanish)
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 08:51 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Mags Bennett at July 11, 2013 08:51 PM (BXLPR)
Speaking of which, if I were to stock a bar for Thor, who so does not deserve it, what are some unusual liquors to get?
Oozo.
Posted by: harleycowboy at July 11, 2013 08:52 PM (+9AX9)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 11, 2013 08:52 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Sharknado at July 11, 2013 08:53 PM (GmTxn)
slapweasel, I have never smelled the like of that dang Moosehead, especially. Don;t know how he gets it down. Of course I don't like beer anyway. He's half French Canadian, so maybe it's in his DNA??Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:54 PM (2/T/u)
...Pixy would ask it to post in MS Word
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 08:55 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 08:55 PM (K+I6z)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:50 AM (2/T/u)
Um no...thats a buoy.
Posted by: Berserker at July 11, 2013 08:55 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 08:55 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: The MS Hat at July 11, 2013 08:56 PM (Vk2pI)
Bastard.
And he doesn't bother staying in touch for the kids, either. He's off to mooch off another unsuspecting woman. He lies like a rug.
Posted by: tcn at July 11, 2013 08:56 PM (RnmNY)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:56 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:57 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 08:57 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: The Cycloptic Hat at July 11, 2013 08:57 PM (Vk2pI)
I hear you, but no. Not really. I'm 6'1", and when I was 195 pounds (many moons ago) I was still a pretty big guy.
If anything, my standards are pretty low. If you saw the last few women I had sex with, you'd agree. I know my limitations- I'm no Greek God myself.
But come on. One dinner date isn't going to suddenly make me overlook the fact that I'm in no way physically attracted.
Next time (if there is one), I'm simply going to turn around and leave without saying a fucking word.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 08:58 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 11, 2013 08:58 PM (BXLPR)
Mad dap going to KY, TN, TX, CO, MS, MA, and especially OK (for good) and NJ (for mockery)
barstoolsports.com/nyc/super-page/all-50-states-and-their-defining-beerliquor/
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 08:59 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 11, 2013 08:59 PM (Vk2pI)
Bastard.
And he doesn't bother staying in touch for the kids, either. He's off to mooch off another unsuspecting woman. He lies like a rug.
Posted by: tcn at July 12, 2013 12:56 AM (RnmNY)
No offense to your sister, who clearly got screwed, but she is a major major exception to the rule.
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 08:59 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 08:59 PM (2/T/u)
Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:56 AM
Oozo is liquorice flavored. Pour it in 7up and it turns it cloudy even though both are clear.
Posted by: harleycowboy at July 11, 2013 09:00 PM (+9AX9)
And you would be wrong. I lost 30lbs by increasing meat intake and sharply decreasing carb intake.
Posted by: bill-o at July 11, 2013 09:00 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 09:01 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at July 11, 2013 09:01 PM (BXLPR)
Rachel types, that's just retarded sir.
Twiggy types should be handed a spear and pointed at the Rachel types.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 09:01 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 09:02 PM (K+I6z)
yep...since the appearance of the bread & pasta heavy food pyramid & the demonization of fat
Posted by: bill-o at July 11, 2013 09:03 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 09:03 PM (ZbjNO)
offended by the cruelness people can show towards fat chicks, but 195
pound is not average.
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:50 AM (2/T/u)
I can understand that. There's a major double standard when it comes to weight between men and women. A man can be much more overweight than can a woman while still being dateable.
So yeah- it's a double standard. An awesome double standard.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 09:04 PM (X9Mnx)
She's been eating recently, as I've seen her "cute-but-anorexic" cheek-bones slowly disappear.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 09:04 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:06 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 09:06 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: lindafell at July 11, 2013 09:07 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 09:08 PM (NRQlH)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 09:08 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 09:09 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: lou's a girl at July 11, 2013 09:09 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 09:10 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:10 PM (2/T/u)
I agree with the critique, and honestly, the face doesn't grab me like Jenna Lee of MK Ultra, but her face is so pretty and the reporting good enough that -> redheads burn brightest
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 09:10 PM (XQzGn)
Right. I don't know how long it's going to take people to figure it out, but it's the damned highly digestible carbs, sugar included. Those fat kids you're seeing we're raised on sippy cups full of apple juice (middle class) or cans of soda (lower class). And meat these days has less fat than ever, because the stupid McGovern commission told us fat was bad, and the media bought in 100%.
This! but the amount of fat in meat is irrelevant....this is because our bodies do not take dietary fat and store it as fat, but rather it is what is burned 1st for energy whereas simple carbs get converted and stored as fat.
Posted by: bill-o at July 11, 2013 09:10 PM (AWwDY)
Hear hear!!
Posted by: Doug Heffernan at July 11, 2013 09:10 PM (7B7jB)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 09:11 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:11 PM (2/T/u)
Everyone told me about the awesome "Mega-Shark vs Giant Octopus" trailer, so I watched that trailer, and yeah, it was awesome. So I bought the DVD.
My God, it's full of disappointments.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 11, 2013 09:11 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: lou's a girl
Go with the CC. I HATE tequila.
...yeealch.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 09:13 PM (lq3Ak)
The rule being?
Posted by: shredded chi at July 12, 2013 01:08 AM (NRQlH)
The man gets screwed.
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 09:13 PM (LI48c)
esp true if you don't keep hydrated
Posted by: bill-o at July 11, 2013 09:13 PM (AWwDY)
I think you'd sum up opinion of not only "Sharknado" but all SyFy content. Phenomenal packaging, horrible package itself.
With that said, the drunkest among us stuck around for "2-Headed Shark Attack," and it was everything that the main event was advertised for.
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 09:14 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:14 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula_51 at July 11, 2013 09:15 PM (Vgn84)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 09:15 PM (6LImX)
Back to the original, and it's a 71-episode playlist: I think I'll plop the babeh in front of this this weekend for his Spanish learnings:
http://bit.ly/13SErpl
(starts with the trippiest, funnest episode!)
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 09:15 PM (3VBXw)
Quiz time: How many others here know who Geoff Peterson is?
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 11, 2013 09:16 PM (7B7jB)
Posted by: akula_51 at July 12, 2013 01:15 AM (Vgn84)
PC Xbox or PS3?
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 09:16 PM (LI48c)
Personality makes a huge difference, and it's not equal across races. Look at how many white dudes end up banging Oriental girls. How many Oriental men are seen with white women?
There are, unfortunately, racial coupling stereotypes.
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 09:16 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 09:17 PM (6LImX)
Tonight,
I witnessed a most amazing feat.....A RAT!
(Set-Up)....East bound 118, (4 lanes) on the downslope from Rocky Peak. (So-Cal M's will know the route well coming into the dreaded 405)...about 7:30 pm and the avg. speed about 80 mph....(try going less and you get your ass rear-ended)...CHP gets to pick and choose who they swoop on,,,, and then......
I see it in the #2 lane looking at first like blowing dark paper....then I see tail and scrambling feet plowing "start-stop,start-stop....RRrruuuunnnnn!!!!!
And then I'm by and glancing in my rear-view and this Effin rat has made the center divider and is deftly climbing up and over to do WHAT???
THE EFFIN OTHER 4 LANES ON THE WEST BOUND???? I would have pulled off to try and watch this epic rodent event but I was fearful of getting rear-ended! Still, I had to share this....just blew my doors off seeing that......beyond freakish.....
Posted by: richard at July 11, 2013 09:17 PM (k45Ag)
The dude who couldn't possibly afford the $18,000 a year in mandated child support that is supposed to go to a woman who spends maybe a third that amount on the kid.
He fails to pay more than is possible for him, he's a criminal. So he says 'fuck it' and stops paying at all. Everybody gets screwed.
I don't have a problem with mandated child support, but the way the amounts
are determined is discriminatory bullshit. I'm not making excuses for the irresponsible deadbeats, but I can also understand why there are so many men who don't pay- they don't because they can't.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 09:18 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:18 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: McGregor at July 11, 2013 09:19 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Sharknado at July 11, 2013 09:19 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: lou's a girl at July 12, 2013 01:09 AM (vgd4f)
===
you put de lime in de coconut, mix it all up .....
Posted by: jc at July 11, 2013 09:19 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Vendette at July 11, 2013 09:20 PM (K+I6z)
http://www.flyingmag.com/news/spirit-airlines-airbus-evasive-dive-scares-passengers
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 09:20 PM (ZbjNO)
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Really not sure, but I'll track the sumbitch down. Can you give a basic description?
Posted by: Craig Poe at July 11, 2013 09:20 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: The Dude at July 11, 2013 09:20 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:21 PM (2/T/u)
Shit. I set up the tent and threw rocks at truck trailers.
*I-M-A loser*
...I went five of seven, though.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 09:21 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: lou's a girl at July 11, 2013 09:22 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 09:24 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Sharknado at July 11, 2013 09:24 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:25 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: angel with a sword at July 11, 2013 09:25 PM (2y8mE)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 09:26 PM (6LImX)
old school baby!
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 12, 2013 01:24 AM (6LImX)
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What a guy! Good on ya.
Posted by: Craig Poe at July 11, 2013 09:26 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 09:27 PM (NRQlH)
Posted by: jc at July 11, 2013 09:27 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 09:27 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 09:28 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 09:28 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: jc at July 11, 2013 09:28 PM (PlzOe)
As someone who has drank all sorts of beer, wine, whiskey, bourbon, Jager, and other drinks to semi-embarrassment, I can confidently say:
Tequila is the devil.
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 09:28 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Craig Poe at July 11, 2013 09:29 PM (BVkEs)
I'm talkin' single-malt Scotch or anything you don't need to add 7-Up to.
...sippy.
Bushmills is my favorite. Hands-down.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 09:30 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:30 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:31 PM (2/T/u)
Some of us are on the East Coast. By the time you suggested watching classics like "The Graduate," "The Searchers," or "The Thing From the Black Lagoon," most of us were sucked into the goddamn sharknado.
In retrospect, OF COURSE we'd watch the classics, but we were young, dumb, and tempted by the sharknado.
Also, those of us who stayed found a much more enjoyable movie ("2-Headed Shark Attack") than what we watched.
We're be back to "The Maltese Falcon" tomorrow
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 09:33 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:33 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Adriane ... at July 11, 2013 09:34 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at July 11, 2013 09:34 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: The Dude at July 11, 2013 09:34 PM (vJdyz)
Oh. I must be too dense to catch that. Thanks for filling me in, buzz.
so the custodial parent should have to fight tooth and nail to get the $130 per month the court mandates for support to clothe and feed a child that was mutually created, but the "father" is getting screwed. And it's ths mother who always instigates the divorce. Because she wants that windfall of a monthly check (that in my experience, never shows up.)
Got it.
Posted by: shredded chi at July 12, 2013 01:27 AM (NRQlH)
You know I'm more thinking about my uncle. Who had his ex-wife come at him with a knife. He got the cops called on him. He did not get custody of their two daughters in the divorce. And only got custody after another DUI wreck by her among other things some time later when it became so obvious that she was unfit to care for them that even the courts could no longer ignore it.
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 09:35 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: lou's a girl at July 12, 2013 01:26 AM (vgd4f)
--lulz, I bought that today because it was the cheapest miniature I could get at the commission.
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 09:35 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: lou's a girl at July 11, 2013 09:36 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 09:36 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 12, 2013 01:29 AM (ZbjNO)
--If you're dyslexic.
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 09:37 PM (3VBXw)
Not that Ian Ziering should ever take precedent in anything, but allegedly, he was only allowed to see his daughter on the 20th or 21st of the month - what about Saturdays or Sundays?
Honestly, don't bitch about homos getting married if our own laws prevent good Christian marriages. The law is corrupt - that's why we want it to apply only to the cities or the states
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 09:37 PM (XQzGn)
That sounds snarky but I'm genuinely curious.
1. Determine how much it actually costs to raise a kid.
2. Split the difference, with adjustments made on relative income.
I realize that raising kids costs money, but let's be realistic- if it really did cost more than $1000 a month each for food, shelter and clothing, there wouldn't be many kids being raised at all except by the upper middle class and above.
Instead it's based on a percentage of income- mostly the man's, since the woman almost always gets custody. She's living with her parents? Doesn't matter.
She decides to go to school for a bullshit degree in underwater basket weaving instead of a job? Doesn't matter.
She already collects food stamps, medicaid and welfare? Don't matter- pay up, sucka.
She insists on paying for daycare so she has time to go out partying on his money? He pays extra for that too.
To the extent possible, reasonable expenses should be split equally. That rarely happens.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 09:37 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula_51 at July 11, 2013 09:38 PM (Vgn84)
Posted by: lou's a girl at July 11, 2013 09:39 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: RWC at July 11, 2013 09:39 PM (8FeS+)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Sharknado at July 11, 2013 09:39 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 09:39 PM (NRQlH)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:39 PM (2/T/u)
I'm all PC...
Posted by: akula_51 at July 12, 2013 01:38 AM (Vgn84)
If you want you can add me. my name at the mail that is hot.
Posted by: buzzion at July 11, 2013 09:40 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 09:42 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 09:42 PM (6LImX)
$130?
Add another zero and you'd be a lot closer to average for a middle class man.
I've no sympathy for the deadbeat assholes who won't pay a reasonable amount, but too often reasonable has nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 09:42 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 09:43 PM (0kR+t)
'Night, y'all!
Posted by: logprof at July 11, 2013 09:45 PM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Sharknado at July 11, 2013 09:45 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:46 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 09:48 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:48 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: lindafell at July 11, 2013 09:48 PM (PGO8C)
No.
A parent doesn't get paid by the other to raise their kids before a divorce, they shouldn't after. Nobody gets custody against their will.
If the mother wants the work to be split, then she should agree to split custody.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 09:49 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 09:50 PM (NRQlH)
http://tinyurl.com/lj75p2y
:-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 11, 2013 09:50 PM (7B7jB)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 09:50 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:51 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 09:52 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:52 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 09:52 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Sharknado at July 11, 2013 09:53 PM (GmTxn)
For me though...just think for a moment,
A rat is on the "food chain of life........prey."
So it would seem to me at least, a rat's every waking synapse is devoted to NOT BEING PREY TODAY! Which is why what I saw tonight was just such a complete violation of rat survival doctrine...I mean "An EFFIN FREEWAY????" JEEBUS, rat walking out into middle of plowed field with a Red Tailed Hawk sitting in a tree 20 yards away does not even come close to this complete simple construct miscue........
jus sayin.......
Posted by: richard at July 11, 2013 09:53 PM (k45Ag)
Whereas "2-Headed Shark Attacks" featured hotties of all ages and genders. Carmen Electra was a hot white female, that chick on the island was a hot black female chick, and Hulk Hogan's daughter represented the transgerndered
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 09:53 PM (XQzGn)
Tammy, I made this comment never expecting to be jealous of anyone.
Goddamn you (figuratively, and bless you literally)
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 09:55 PM (XQzGn)
http://tinyurl.com/lj75p2y
:-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2013 01:50 AM (7B7jB)
---
Oh okay. I've always known him as James Carville.
Posted by: Craig Poe at July 11, 2013 09:55 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 09:55 PM (2/T/u)
...except that the hurricane never made landfall and they "needed" to stop three tornadoes in a helicopter.
...with propane bombs.
...and guts.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 09:56 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 09:56 PM (mCNwt)
Yes, with a modifier based on income. With split custody, little or no money changes hands. If she has custody, she should get a reasonable child support payment- and by reasonable, I mean roughly half what she actually pays to raise the kids.
How many husbands pay their wives a monthly salary for raising the kids while together? Approximately none. Why should he pay her such a salary after?
Keep in mind that the Mother's Day gift of jewelry was offered in the hope he'd get a BJ out of the deal. Not as compensation for taking care of Junior.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 10:00 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 11, 2013 10:00 PM (2/T/u)
Posted by: Nay Back at July 11, 2013 10:02 PM (Irq86)
Posted by: lous a girl commenting from hubby's phone at July 11, 2013 10:02 PM (vgd4f)
Slade, Run-run away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoPYLQvnQM
Goodnight, ehhhhvrybody.
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 11, 2013 10:03 PM (lq3Ak)
Their current situation is: they are divorced by someone else's choice. They do not have custody of their kids and they have to make a payment to the someone that deprived them of the custody of their kids. To them, that payment seems like a ransom for a kidnapping -- only they will never get their kids back if they continue to pay. Not only that, but the person who kidnapped their kids could never actually sustain the kidnapping without a court order for child support.
So, now that they are paying out the ransom every month, they cannot actually afford another family -- when all they wanted in the first place was to have a family life.
Do some of them become bitter and turn into deadbeats? Yep.
Posted by: jc at July 11, 2013 10:04 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Jake in ID-aquavit at July 11, 2013 10:04 PM (6LImX)
Posted by: Kalneva at July 11, 2013 10:04 PM (XyrkB)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 10:05 PM (0kR+t)
Had a great title too: Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 11, 2013 10:05 PM (7B7jB)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:07 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: lous a girl commenting from hubby's phone at July 11, 2013 10:07 PM (vgd4f)
OTOH, seeing who dropped out of the ONT reminds one of a Star Wars story without Han, Leia, Chewie, Lando, C-3P0, and R2-D2
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 10:08 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:09 PM (mCNwt)
Hollowpoint, it's not a salary for raising the kids, but her needs are provided for.
Basically, I think we'll have to agree to disagree. I see it this way: Kids are the responsibility of both parents, period. If you are married, divide the money and the labor how you want. If you're split up, and you can divide up the labor and the money without the court, do it however you want. But if you bring it to court, the court should hold both parents equally responsible for the financial part and the labor part. If one parent doesn't do his/her full share of one aspect, he/she should have to pick up more of the other aspect. Forget men and women (yes, I know I'm a little odd in that I actually did live with my dad) its just about parenting, period.
Posted by: Jenny Hates All The Things at July 11, 2013 10:09 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Kalneva at July 11, 2013 10:09 PM (XyrkB)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 10:10 PM (0kR+t)
Yep.
One of the most insidious phrases to afflict our country politically has been "But what about the children?"
Invoke the children, and suddenly the unreasonable becomes not just reasonable, but the only refuge for all but the heartless.
Never mind that the resulting policies usually end up doing more harm than good to said children.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 10:11 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 10:12 PM (NRQlH)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:12 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:13 PM (mCNwt)
If you're paying someone based on the amount of work they do, it's a salary. Full stop.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 10:13 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: lous a girl commenting from hubby's phone at July 11, 2013 10:14 PM (vgd4f)
The Instawife has a well-received book on the phenomenon, but the underlying reality is that culture, politics, legalism, reality, and hearts have entered a five-way maelstrom of dysfunction -- often at cross-purposes.
Examples? Why, sure....two charming young ladies you know want to set up a household together because they are in love (hearts) -- they're both so dear to you, you wish 'em well. One gets sick, the other wants to visit the hospital (legalism) -- there's no hospital policy, and they are unfortunately separated. When recovered, they decide they want to marry to avoid a repeat of the hospital fiasco (politics) and run into a buzzsaw of opposition, including those who say that traditional marriage is already torqued enough with >50% divorce rates and numerous family-court fiascos without dumping a new group with few precedents into the mix. They decide that validation (culture) is more of an issue than the pragmatic difficulties involved with "gay marriage" and fund PACs and protest in the streets. And finally, the bloody battles fade, and the signifiers of "approval" [gay marriage] turn out to be worth nothing (reality) compared to the actual personal relationships that exist ("you wish 'em well", from (hearts)).
Similar stories hold true with married, unmarried, polygamous, and celibate unions. There were traditional structures to encompass such things, with laws that could be relied upon and leveraged to provide socially advantageous results....but, once the progressive crowd reinvented the world from scratch, the fine balancings and nuances were shoved off-kilter.
And the surest sign that this is so lies in a pair of mirror tests: are the stupid rewarded for stupidity and the smart penalized for doing well? The current system exemplifies this.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 10:15 PM (T1005)
Posted by: lous a girl commenting from hubby's phone at July 11, 2013 10:15 PM (vgd4f)
That is why the LEFT promotes the coolness and hipster angles of Divorce,
"Families are (really, such a drag on your personal growth)
wink-wink...nod-nod.....have another glass of cool-aid............
Posted by: richard at July 11, 2013 10:16 PM (k45Ag)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:17 PM (mCNwt)
Just for fun, not interrogation.
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 12, 2013 02:17 AM (mCNwt)
====
you have compadres in the hinterlands.
Posted by: jc at July 11, 2013 10:18 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 10:18 PM (0kR+t)
Most of those expenses have little to do with the addition of a kid- childless couples and single people still have mortgage payments, water bills, electric bills, etc. A child increases those expenses by a relatively small amount.
Again- I'm not suggesting that child support shouldn't exist. I'm saying that the determination of child support payments are completely disconnected from the amount reasonably expected for and spent on the upkeep of the child.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 10:19 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 10:19 PM (0kR+t)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:21 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:22 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:23 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:24 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Craig Poe at July 11, 2013 10:25 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:25 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 10:25 PM (0kR+t)
Posted by: Kalneva at July 11, 2013 10:26 PM (XyrkB)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 10:27 PM (0kR+t)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:29 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:29 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Auntie Doodles at July 11, 2013 10:29 PM (CzYvE)
Posted by: lous a girl commenting from hubby's phone at July 11, 2013 10:30 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:30 PM (mCNwt)
http://youtu.be/lzKrMfni29c
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:33 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: Kalneva at July 11, 2013 10:33 PM (XyrkB)
If a pig had wings...
People suck. If they didn't, various idealistic ideologies such as Libertarianism or Communism might actually be feasible. In the real world, they aren't.
Child support has a place. But like all things determined by politicians, the implementation is determined primarily by politics. Read: Unjust.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 10:34 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:34 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: The Q at July 12, 2013 01:16 AM (XQzGn)
ayup
Posted by: CAC at July 12, 2013 01:43 AM (0kR+t)
Definitely, but my friend Carrie who is 6ft, blonde and stunning is married to a Japanese guy. His father's family has been here for generations ( they were in those camps) and his mama is from Japan.
Their daughters are beyond adorable.
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 01:51 AM (2/T/u)
Oh, man -- that sounds cuter than hell. I'd love to see pics, but I'll keep it hypothetical, 'cause blogs...
One time, we had a receptionist whose father was a black serviceman in the US armed forces (and US blacks tend to be mutts, genetically) and whose mom was Filipina. She had done modeling, including featured ads for dyna-gym-like exercise equipment, and was generally upbeat, friendly, and cheerful.....as someone you'd want for a receptionist would be. The weird bit was that you could put her next to almost anyone and she'd be half-in and half-out. Asians, blacks, caucasians, hispanics....it looked like they all both loved her friendliness "within the group" and were intrigued by her being exotic. We had total asshole customers meet her in the reception area and end up chatting about gardening 15 minutes later -- it was a bit weird.
I admit that I also fell under her spell and remember her quite fondly. But it was quite uncanny how well she'd tame the savage beast.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 10:35 PM (T1005)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:36 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 10:36 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:37 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 10:39 PM (0kR+t)
Thanks to the vets - I'll be up listening to Hall & Oates til' about 3:30 and then turning in for good
Posted by: The Q at July 11, 2013 10:40 PM (XQzGn)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:40 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 10:41 PM (NRQlH)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:41 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:42 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Kalneva at July 11, 2013 10:43 PM (XyrkB)
Hollowpoint, it's not a salary for raising the kids, but her needs are provided for.
Basically, I think we'll have to agree to disagree. I see it this way: Kids are the responsibility of both parents, period. If you are married, divide the money and the labor how you want. If you're split up, and you can divide up the labor and the money without the court, do it however you want. But if you bring it to court, the court should hold both parents equally responsible for the financial part and the labor part. If one parent doesn't do his/her full share of one aspect, he/she should have to pick up more of the other aspect. Forget men and women (yes, I know I'm a little odd in that I actually did live with my dad) its just about parenting, period.
Posted by: Jenny Hates All The Things at July 12, 2013 02:09 AM (GmTxn)
The problem is when you're allocating finances based on conception and parentage based on involvement.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 10:44 PM (T1005)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:45 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:45 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:48 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 12, 2013 02:21 AM (ZbjNO)
Yeah, that's part of the "reacting against a world that's long gone" bit. And, frankly, it's in that "tyranny of low expectations" world that affirmative action mandates. Can't we all be adults?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 10:49 PM (T1005)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 10:49 PM (0kR+t)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Sharknado at July 11, 2013 10:50 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 10:51 PM (NRQlH)
Posted by: Ghost Ø HillØrrheah at July 11, 2013 10:52 PM (ULH4o)
Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 11, 2013 10:53 PM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Adriane ... at July 11, 2013 10:55 PM (Jv4FA)
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Posted by: Adriane ... at July 11, 2013 10:56 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 10:57 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: Adriane ... at July 11, 2013 10:58 PM (Jv4FA)
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Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 12, 2013 12:07 AM (lr3d7)
Yes and no. No doubt whatsoever I need to get laid. Several times. Up a-gin the wall, no less. Or bent over, or with ankle earrings, I aint picky at this point!
But we've been fighting for about 2 months over a huge problem, and I am going to have to give in and I am having a hard time being gracious about it.
Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:13 AM (2/T/u)
Y'know.....if he knew what I know, he'd lurk the blog.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 10:58 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Adriane ... at July 11, 2013 10:58 PM (Jv4FA)
One of the few things that suck about being an American WASP- there are few places you can go where you're considered the exotic type that women fawn over.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 10:59 PM (X9Mnx)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Sharknado at July 11, 2013 11:00 PM (GmTxn)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 11:01 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Socalcon at July 11, 2013 11:02 PM (K6CHr)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 11:02 PM (0kR+t)
Alas fair maiden
my use of bedtime
doth not construe such
stead tis Morpheus
who beckons with
sweet restoring sleep.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 11:03 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 11, 2013 11:04 PM (ajZrU)
Posted by: CAC at July 11, 2013 11:05 PM (0kR+t)
Posted by: Chromoly Man at July 11, 2013 11:07 PM (/+EhN)
Posted by: Adriane ... at July 11, 2013 11:07 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: shredded chi at July 11, 2013 11:08 PM (NRQlH)
http://youtu.be/jUb3PiCIZp0
It has a Roman Death Legion and killer trees.
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Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 11:11 PM (ZbjNO)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 11, 2013 11:13 PM (ZbjNO)
Want to see something funny, watch a Mexican guy drop a widget on a Vietnamese guy's toe, and get cussed out in Bosnian (as a language, swearing in Spanish tends to be very personal -- you mention mothers, whores, goats, obscene acts, etc.; Vietnamese is supposedly too polite to really get a tear going ("If you would be so kind as to fornicate forcibly with your family barnyard animals."); only Bosnian allows you to swear about objects and people in a civilized manner ['get that fucking robot off my fucking foot, you fucking idiot."] -- so all three groups started using it.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 11, 2013 11:15 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Adriane ... at July 11, 2013 11:16 PM (Jv4FA)
So anyone go to the advance showings of Pacific Rim?
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Posted by: Adriane ... at July 11, 2013 11:38 PM (Jv4FA)
http://youtu.be/4jUPhF0ENjA
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